Suicides
Canto XIII
Canto XIII - The Suicides
" Like the rest, we shall return to claim our bodies
but never again to wear them - wrong it is
for a man to have again what he once cast off”
but never again to wear them - wrong it is
for a man to have again what he once cast off”
— translation by Mark Musa
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The Wood of the Suicide
The Wood of the Suicide is a pitiful place for the “self-slayers” and the passage from Canto XIII is among the saddest in the Inferno.
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